Lucent-Alcatel
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Headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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| Traded as | Euronext: ALU |
| Industry | Telecommunications equipment Networking equipment |
| Fate | Acquired by and merged with Nokia |
| Founded | December 1, 2006 (originally 1872 (Alcatel) and 1870 (Lucent Technologies) |
| Defunct | November 3, 2016 |
| Headquarters | Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Philippe Camus (chairman) |
| Products | Hardware, software and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises |
| Website | www |
Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (French pronunciation: [alkatɛl lysɛnt]) was a French global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter being the successor of AT&T's Western Electric.
The company focused on fixed, mobile and converged networking hardware, technologies, software and services, with operations in more than 130 countries. It had been named Industry Group Leader for Technology Hardware & Equipment sector in the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices review and listed in the 2014 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators for the 4th consecutive year. Alcatel-Lucent also owned Bell Laboratories, one of the largest research and development facilities in the communications industry, whose employees have been awarded eight Nobel Prizes and the company holds in excess of 29,000 patents.
On November 3, 2016 Nokia completed the acquisition of the company and it was merged into their Nokia Networks division. Bell Labs was still maintained as an independent subsidiary of Nokia. The Alcatel-Lucent brand has been replaced by Nokia, but it still survives under Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE), the enterprise division of Alcatel-Lucent that was sold to China Huaxin in 2014.
Alcatel-Lucent was formed when Alcatel (originally short for the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécommunications et d'Électronique, a small company in Mulhouse absorbed by CGE in 1966) merged with Lucent Technologies on December 1, 2006. However, the predecessors of the company have been a part of telecommunications industry since the late 19th century. The company has roots in two early telecommunications companies: La Compagnie Générale d'Electricité (CGE) and the Western Electric Manufacturing Company.
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